Count Basie held onto his band throughout the 1950s and into the ’60s because...
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Since it’s Friday, I thought I’d end the week by sharing with you three...
“Charles Mingus would be very proud of this band,” said Charles McPherson, shortly after...
Authors New Book, “Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer”. Pre-order in hardback, softback or...
By 1938, clarinetist Benny Goodman was already known as “The King of Swing” —...
A couple of weeks ago, Billy Collins sent me an unpublished poem. Billy is...
I melt at the sound of a swinging sax section. But I don’t keep...
When Stan Getz is playing, I can’t stop listening. No really, I can’t stop...
Miles Davis led several seminal groups in jazz history. Although the 1960s quintet with...
Liberia, the West African country named for freedom, was partly financed by wealthy Americans...
Marty Grosz sits on a bar stool in a darkened room in Chestnut Hill’s...
Zara McFarlane may have been made in Britain, but she belongs to Jamaica. The...
